Network Shares inaccessible (to digikam) after transition to digikam v5.1 (schema v.8)

[digikam-ng.jg at graumannschaft.org]

Indeed.. Fixing the paths to using proper "/" resolves my issues.

Thank you Sincerely, Joh

2016-09-27 07:26:27 +0200 <caulier.gilles at gmail.com[1]>
> The encoding path to root collection is badly encoded. In fact this is due
> certainly to port to pure Qt5 implementation, previous one use KUrl instead
> Qt5::QUrl.
> 
> Note : this is another point to prohibit the KDE API and to always promote
> Qt API instead everywhere. This kind of dysfunction are unacceptable for an
> application as digiKam. As now the 800.000 lines of code drop 90% of KDE
> API, the future will be more stable.
> 
> The solution to your problem is to fix the encoding path of root collection
> in DB. Look in Setup collection dialog if paths are show properly.
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2016-09-27 7:01 GMT+02:00 <digikam-ng.jg at graumannschaft.org>:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After I managed to upgrade on my debian stable/testing system from digikam
> > 4.*
> > to 5.1 (see an earlier post), I now have a new issue: the path definition
> > of my
> > network drive stored albums has NOT changed during the database migration,
> > however digikam 5.1 is unable to access the images stored on the network -
> > when clicking on the thumbnail, the real image is NOT loaded and when
> > trying
> > to create a new sub-album/directory in the left album pane (where the
> > network
> > stored albums show up just fine), I get a complaint that "file://<pathto
> > network share missing here>/<parent of the dir to create>" does not exist.
> > 
> > When looking at the corresponding AlbumRoots table using mysql-workbench,
> > I
> > get this: https://ibin.co/2wTxwWM8Pitj.png
> > 
> > What's going wrong and how to fix it?
> > 
> > Sincerely, Joh 

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